Originally Posted by
KeepDiscovering
Speaking of Skybus, I take it to commute to the airport every Fri afternoon. The Dominion Road service is seriously delayed most of the time. There were several weeks when the xx:12 service was cancelled and I ended up waiting for half an hour at the bus stop for the xx:32 service.
The Mt Eden Road service seems more reliable.
I don't know how weekly commuters who work in Auckland CBD are managing this weekly trip to the airport. They have to endure CBD traffic in addition to the airport road traffic we are talking here.
You mean 20 minutes? :P
This is a problem affecting all of Auckland, not just the airport. I leave for work about 6:40am Monday to Friday, getting on SH1 northbound at the Ellerslie-Panmure onramp. I've been doing this drive for about two years and the change over the last <6 months has been glaringly obvious. Where once I might encounter exceptionally heavy traffic once a week, these days it is reversed and there will only be moderate traffic once a week (amusingly one morning this week the lights were out at the intersection just before the onramp and at the onramp itself meaning a straight drive onto the motorway, and it was the most free flowing traffic of the week).
Extrapolate this out to the airport and where you previously had really bad traffic at peak times (i.e Friday afternoon), now it is far more frequent. The road works obviously do not help at all.
Building more/wider/bigger roads is not going to fix the problem. More capacity means more cars to fill it up. We need a train.